Re: Goodbye HFS.FST (crashed HD again)

[johnlb@primenet.com (John Bowling)]

In article <50t3pg$nd8@europa.frii.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote:
>In article <50sp3a$29q@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:
>>I am at my wits end with the 'Generic FST error' and a host of other 
>>mindless I/O errors while using my HFS partitions on my GS.  Ugh.  I 
>>resign the usefulness of that damned FST.  I have a 1080mb SCSI-2 HD
>>on my 1mb RamFAST 3.01F Rev D card and my HFS volumes always get 
>>corrupted within a couple months.  I have finally decided to stay with
>>a much smaller HD and my zip drive.  Here goes one nice HD (too bad I
>>don't have a Mac or PC w/SCSI).  To be continued in csa2m....   ;)
>
>My first question is what in the crap can you do with a 1 gig hard disk on a
>IIgs? I'm about to move my IIgs from a 105 to a 230 only because I have an
>Apple ROM equipped Quantum handy now, so I can use HD SC Setup to format it
>and get the ProDOS volume to show up on my Mac. It ain't because the 105 is 
>full. Heck, the 230 wasn't anywhere near full in my Mac but I put in a 540
>to be able to capture more video to disk with my digitizer.
>I'm also curious as to how people have trouble with HFS volumes. I put my
>IIgs hard disk on my Mac to run Norton on the HFS volume every so often so
>I can optimize it and look for problems and I've never seen any.

I'm running a 520M on my gs, with 2 128K HFS partitions.  I haven't had
any problem.  When I feel that I need to optimize, I copy the data to
other partitions, erase the partition, and copy back.  I will usually use
the Orca shell compress utility to alphabetize the directories while it's
on a ProDOS partition (so the listing does not have to be alphabetized
every time by HFS -- one of the reasons it's slower than ProDOS).

And I do use a lot of the space on the disk, over two thirds of it, though
I usually try to keep at least one ProDOS 32M partition empty for
temporary use.

John
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